03549nam 2200589 450 991046026650332120200520144314.01-4426-3228-310.3138/9781442632288(CKB)3710000000421848(EBL)3432004(OCoLC)929153407(MiAaPQ)EBC4669547(CEL)450020(OCoLC)918589048(CaBNVSL)thg00930943(DE-B1597)465814(OCoLC)979747353(DE-B1597)9781442632288(Au-PeEL)EBL4669547(CaPaEBR)ebr11256079(OCoLC)958514280(EXLCZ)99371000000042184820160916h19791979 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierKarl Philipp Moritz at the Fringe of genius /Mark BoulbyToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1979.©19791 online resource (321 p.)Heritage1-4426-5215-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Novel of the Self -- 2. Enlightened Man Emergent -- 3. Poor Travelling Creature -- 4. The Smoke and the Light -- 5. At the Fringe of Genius -- 6. Subjunctives of Success -- 7. Departure Intestate -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Chronology: Karl Philipp Moritz -- Index This is the first complete biographical and critical study of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93), German novelist, teacher, journalist, and philogist. His psychological novel, Anton Reiser, replete with insights into the sociological and psychological life of the time, was one of the most important eighteenth-century German novels. Moritz was in close touch with most of the major intellectual currents in Weimar and Berlin—from aesthetics and linguistics on the one hand to pietistical and mystical movements on the other—and he was a friend of Goethe and of other significant German literary figures as well. His career was a turbulent one, made all the more difficult by his many-sided psychological problems, which play a large role in his autobiographical writings.Karl Philipp Moritz has never been totally forgotten, but scholarly interest in him has increased dramatically in the last few decades. His works, particularly Anton Reiser, have also generated considerable popular interest. This is the first comprehensive monograph on this multi-faceted modern writer—an amazing fact in light of the homage paid Moritz by such contemporaries as Goethe, Schiller, and Jean Paul. Mark Boulby has succeeded admirably in relating all the frequently disparate ideas of Moritz to the trends of the period, and has combined theoretical analysis and biographical investigation in a readable and lively book.Novelists, German18th centuryBiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LiterarybisacshElectronic books.Novelists, GermanBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.833.6Boulby Mark983258MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460266503321Karl Philipp Moritz2244565UNINA